In the rest of this column, I’ll focus on a variety of the design ideas and tactics I use to make tables work on mobile devices. I design lots of tables in my work, for deeply data-driven merchandise, and have discovered all such responsive tables to be poor options. All of these approaches fail because their designers are contemptuous of the user’s must view information in a tabular format. Making tables a design sin has led to our discussing them as little as attainable, so there’s been far too little innovation or design inspiration. Members of the design community who even can deliver themselves to debate tables have settled on a few techniques, but they’re all simply terrible.

Since July 2018, Google has prioritized mobile page load speed as a key metric when figuring out a website’s search result ranking. If your mobile web site is gradual or unresponsive, it comes with a hefty penalty to your overall ranking across all gadgets...